On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:15:48AM -0700, Jeff Goodman wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:58:02AM -0700, Jeff wrote: >> >>> If you want Debian to be popular with more people, work at making it >>> better for more people. >> >> However, be careful not to make it worse for the previously loyal users. >> If you add fancy but fragile knobs and eye-candy, the fragility will >> scare off anyone who wants to use Debian for a serious use rather than a >> consumer kiddy's desktop. >> >> Doug. >> > I'd love to see a project, within Debian or not, that works on "user > enhancement" packages. The goal would be to create various *optional* > packages that could be added to a stock debian system to give it some of > the sizzle that attracts some users to ubu, etc. This way, the Debian > purist could just ignore the glitz. I'm not sure what "user enhancement" packages we lack. I mean we have compiz, relatively recent versions of gnome/kde/xfce in sid. I just don't see where we lack except in that they aren't the default installs. Maybe you mean some meta packages that pull in a bunch of this glitz automatically? A
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